West Berkshire
Parent Carer Forum
Empower and enable your voices to be heard
Welcome to West Berkshire Parent Carer Forum!
We are a friendly group of parent carers who have children with special educational needs and/or disabilities aged from 0 -25 yrs.
We want to improve our local services, and by coming together as a collective, we can and do make changes. We are always happy for more people to join us, there’s no charge to join, and we are a relaxed fun group, So if you would like to be part of a friendly bunch of people who would like to see SEND changes in West Berkhire, we would love to have you
As a Forum we can support and train parent/carers to enable you to have your voices and opinions count, and to be involved with shaping services alongside professionals who provide health, education, adult and social services.
Our shared mission is to improve and enhance the experiences and opportunities of children and younge people with additional needs, by enabling parents and carers to be heard, and to be at the heart of decisions about development and delivery of services in West Berkshire.
The Forum represents the views of the collective community and not an individual voice. We are unable to advocate for individual families, but signpost to specialist services.
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Call for help! Your opinions required 😃
We have been asked by Berkshire West School Years Service if we could look at a draft questionnaire survey for parents and carers who have a child that has recently transitioned or is about to from paediatric care to adult care.
The questionnaire needs to be read over, and any comments and suggestions for change made to us, who will then feed it back to the School Years Service.
If you would like to take part in this project, please contact me '@' fionaworby@roseroad.org.uk, and I will send the draft out to you for comments.
This is a great opportunity for parent carers to ensure the right questions are being asked by a service.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Fiona
Mott Macdonald hosting a webinar for parent carers about the SEND Tribunal National Trial which has been running since April 2018.
The webinar will include bitesize sessions on key areas of the SEND National Trial that are of particular interest to parent carers all delivered by an informed panel of speakers from stakeholder organisations.
When: Thursday 10th December, 11:00 – 12:30
Where: The event will take place on Teams Live. To register for the event,
When: Thursday 10th December, 11:00 – 12:30
Where: The event will take place on Teams Live. To register for the event,
The webinar will include bitesize sessions on key areas of the SEND National Trial that are of particular interest to parent carers, all delivered by an informed panel of speakers who work in SEND. The topics being covered include:
• Overview of the SEND National Trial
• Solutions through mediation
• What to expect at a Tribunal hearing
There will also be an opportunity to ask questions to the panel on the SEND National Trial at the end of the webinar.
To register for the event either click the link or the image below.
Those that register will be sent a calendar invite and joining link for this webinar one week before the event.
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SEND National Trial Webinar for Parent Carers
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SEND National Trial Webinar for Parent CarersSENDiass Training - SENDiass are holding a special evening session this coming Thursday 26th November, 7-8pm about: ‘What is an EHC Plan and does my child need one?’
For more info and to sign up for your FREE ticket click below 👇👇👇
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What is an EHC Plan and does my child need one?
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SENDIASS Training for Parents/Carers of Children with Special Educational Needs (0-25) 20/21